Amazing Photos from Camera Phones

[Agschmid]

You don't need a fancy camera to capture inspiring photos. Here are great images taken with camera phones, but first a few tips when taking photos on your phone:

- Avoid using the flash, says Yahoo Tech's David Pogue.
- Don't use Instagram to take photos.
- Touch the screen to pinpoint the focus of the photo.
- Assume the 'tripod' position.

See this link for all of them!

[NV Whino]

1. I agree with the one comment

Most of these photos have been enhanced with processing software. Which is not to say they aren't spectacular, just that the headline is a bit misleading.

If we do a phone pic contest, and I think we should, we need to discuss whether we should allow extra processing or have them be straight out of the camera. And just for the record, almost every shot I take has extra processing, whether it is from my DSLR or my point and shoot. I have never used my phone, and rarely use my iPad or iPod for photos, and don't process those when I do use them.

[Stevenmarc]

2. Post processing is going to happen

The question that has to be discussed when it comes to a phone contest is where the processing happens, whether it's done in phone or outside the phone.

The second photos post was absolutly done outside the phone and there's where I'm kind of a purist, the work needs to be done in phone.

[Adsos Letter]

3. The Snapseed App you pointed me to can do quite a lot.

[Mz Pip]

5. I love Snapseed

It has some pretty cool features. I did this with Snapseed.

[Curmudgeoness]

4. Why?

Why do you say that the work needs to be done in-phone?

I ask because I am ignorant of phone photos (I still have not got a cell phone, so don't know the phone photography). I also ask because, to me, the photo that I can look at on a cell phone (or on my camera's tiny screen) is too small to know what I am seeing. It isn't until I download to my computer that I can really see what I have.

[Stevenmarc]

7. First

The design concept of a camera screen is meant for a quick review of your shot it's not like a smartphone screen which was designed to frame, shoot, edit and be the place where the final product is viewed. The smartphone screen also has a lot more visual real estate than most screens on a camera back, editing on a phone is not an issue especially with the plethora of photography related apps available.

Ok that said, why in-phone editing only? Well mobile photography isn't just about snapping a shot with a smartphone it's about the process and that includes creative use of apps for post production. Quite frankly, I think it simply doesn't make sense to have a phone contest if you don't have the complete creative experience on the phone.

[JCMach1]

6. Processing happens in digital anyway... every digital camera has a different procsessing chip

so processing happens at digital birth...

[Stevenmarc]

9. Thankfully

We have the word Post to help us delineate the joyous birth from the time that humans get their hands on it.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. The splash photo made me gasp. Omigod. n/t